Gideon Moore, Sr.

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Gideon Moore, Sr., son of Jonathan Moore I (1679/80-1770) and Hannah Long (1679-1770), was born in 1710 in Simsbury, Hartford Co., Ct. He married Anna Griswold on 23 Apr 1735, and she bore two children while the couple lived in Simsbury.

In 1738, they moved to what was then the Nine Partners Patent, Dutchess County, NY.

In 1760, they moved to a 200-acre farm (Great Lot 10, leased from Gen. Philip Schuyler) within the Saratoga Patent of then Albany County, later becoming Saratoga County, NY (after 1791).

During the Revolutionary War, Gideon served (together with his sons Gideon, Charles, Alpheus, Phineas, Reuben and Hosea) in the 13th Regiment of the Albany County New York Militia.

The resulting pension applications of his sons and grandchildren yield invaluable detail regarding the lives of Gideon Sr. and Anna Moore. In 1855, Rial C. Moore initiated posthumous pursuit (from Summit Co., OH), of his father's original 1833 pension application (Portage, Livingston Co., NY). Reuben Moore died 03 Nov 1833, just 3 days before approval of his pension wherein he ". . . stated that his father's [Gideon Moore Sr's.] house and barn at Saratoga were burned by the enemy at the time of the capture of Burgoyne."

Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered his British troops on 17 Oct 1777, 10 days after the Battle of Bemis Heights.

Gideon Moore, Sr.'s 2nd daughter, Tryphena Moore, married Jotham Bemus, Sr., tavern owner for whom the heights were named.

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